I had a screen grab from the throat cutting scene in game #6 on the list as one of my avvys on another forum for a while. (EDIT: I just want to point out I've never owned or played this game, I googled psychotic yandere or something along those lines for the express purpose of having a creepy looking Anime girl avvy.)

RE: #1 (aka Stan is a nutter) there was a screamingly funny let's play done of this game that HK linked to at one point.

Back to Sniper Elite V2. I hate how this game railroads me. Especially the "destroy the V2 rocket" mission. You can't just use stealth and wait out the fueling? WTF is up with that? They won't start fueling it UNTIL I START A GUNFIGHT? Fuck that. Stupid shitty game design is stupid and shitty. There are glimpses that show that this game could have been brilliant but the linear level design and the constant reliance on "we will throw a billiion mooks at you because snipers lay waste to entire armies single handedly right?" gets REALLY old. Even the battles that SHOULD be cool like the battle against the Russian sniper team fail because of goofy spawn triggers. I'm going to do a detailed review of this game when I finally finish it.

I have nothing but respect for Simo Haya but he didn't engage squads of guys at less than 150 meters. He stalked and killed his prey like a proper sniper, he didn't run and gun like a dumbass begging to get shot in the face. He got shot in the face anyway but that's sort of beside the point and the fact he survived just makes him that much more of a badass.

I just beat the game on Sniper Elite, I'll have a review up in the next day or two where I'll address what I liked/didn't about the game in more detail.

But yea, the white death, it pissed me off that they used Carlos Hathcock's kill count as their achievement goal instead of Simo. But I surpassed both by the end of the game anyway. And killed Hitler. Seeing the look on his face when the bullet hit him right above his left eye while he was looking back over his shoulder whilst running in terror towards the getaway train, is one of the most satisfying things I have EVER done in a video game.

It was on sale on Steam a week or so ago for less than three bucks. It doesn't have a ton of replay value and isn't really big so I wouldn't pay the normal asking price of ten. It does come with two other rifles that otherwise aren't in the game, I haven't checked it out to see if they're usable in any other challenge maps.

I'm sitting here playing Donkey Kong country returns, and I'm trying to wrap my head around how characters like Sonic the Hedgehog and Donkey Kong manage to even stay sane. Imagine spending your entire life hurtling through environments that are collapsing around you, launched from barrels into falling buildings that leads to a burning forest... Jesus Christ, man. Jesus Christ.

I mean, holy shit! Diddy just got obliterated by the fucking kraken, DK! And you don't even blink?

Burnout 3, until I fucking crashed in first and dropped to fifth without a fucking chance in hell to make it back up. But I keep on coming back to it. Should just stick to Crash Course instead of the damn races. Except for Road Rage, that's some real good stuff right there.

THPS 4, so damn bad at it. I can barely make a 5k combo, a 10k is just grinds, small jumps with <- + Square every damn time and it always makes me think of Aggressive Inline every time I play it. Every. Single. Time.

To complete my night, I fucked up a Shadow Hearts Covenant battle. A boss who kept on paralyzing the crap out of my party and I foolishly tried to make four-man combos and it wore down my sanity until I restarted to kick his ass with 3-man combos. Definitely the smarter way.